Glessner Named Spartan Athlete of the Week for September 9

Sep 09, 2013

YORK, PA - York College is proud to announce that Spartan
women’s soccer player Melanie Glessner (Waldorf,
Md./Thomas Stone) has been named the Spartan Athlete of
the Week for the week ending on August 8.

Glessner led the Spartans to a pair of wins in three games for
the week including her first shutout of the season.

In the Spartans’ home opener on Wednesday, Glessner
notched four saves with one goal against in the Green and
White’s 2-1 victory over Elizabethtown.

She followed that with a 1-0 shutout with three saves as the
Spartans earned their second straight win. Glessner closed out the
week with a 1-0 loss against a talented University of Scranton
squad. Glessner recorded four saves in the tight loss against the
Royals.

For the week, Glessner notched 11 saves with two goals against.
Her goals against average was 0.67 for the week while her save
percentage was .818.

Glessner, the defending NCAA statistical champion in save
percentage, owns a save percentage of .800 and a goals against
average of 0.74 for the season.

Glessner, a national Academic All-America last year, is a
sociology and criminal justice major while she is a mathematics
minor. She is the daughter of William Glessner and Gaynor
Robben.